Let's talk about cardboard Christmas houses and accessories

Visit our Contributors' Pages:
Visit Family Christmas Online Visit Howard Lamey's own web page, LittleGlitterHouses.com Click to Sign Up for Maria Cudequest's Collectibles Blog
Visit Family Christmas Online Click to visit Papa Ted's Place - the ultimate cardboard Christmas house resource. Click to return to the Old Christmas Tree Lights Table of Contents Page



Note: To ask a question, sign up for our "Christmas Times" newsletter, or learn how
to apply for membership to this forum, please visit our Contact page.


Note: All content on this forum is Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 by Paul D. Race
and by the posters who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content
or plans may be republished or sold, nor may any plans be used to make products to sell without prior written
permission from Paul D. Race and the individual who contributed the content or plan in question.
For permissions or questions about this policy, please contact us using our Contact page.
It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:19 pm

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 16 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:23 pm 
Offline

Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:51 pm
Posts: 109
Attachment:
2023 F P Putz.jpg
2023 F P Putz.jpg [ 248.71 KiB | Viewed 691 times ]
Hi guys.... good to see the site may have recovered. Thanks to Paul for your untiring efforts!

This year's putz is essentially a re-arrangement, but it became a favorite quickly. Here are some
test photos.


Attachments:
2023 F P Putz.jpg
2023 F P Putz.jpg [ 248.71 KiB | Viewed 691 times ]
2023 f p putz vill close up left.jpg
2023 f p putz vill close up left.jpg [ 247.07 KiB | Viewed 691 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:50 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:30 pm
Posts: 231
Nothing compares to seeing this in person of course, but these photos are really great!

I love, love, love this year's "double town square" feature with the parade coming up between. If one pops up in my next display, you'll know who inspired me!

Just wonderful!

Barb


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:28 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:35 pm
Posts: 1093
What a feast for the eyes!! This a truly a magnificent village set up!!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:07 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:09 pm
Posts: 34
Yes, that is pretty fabulous! Provides a good sense of what the hobby is about. Love the W. Britain toy soldiers on parade. Just great.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:27 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:32 pm
Posts: 2336
This is GREAT!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:43 pm 
Offline

Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:51 pm
Posts: 109
Thanks, guys, for your nice comments. I found another shot or two taken by a friend with her cell phone camera


Attachments:
23 p v right side.jpg
23 p v right side.jpg [ 243.38 KiB | Viewed 295 times ]
23 p v entirety.jpg
23 p v entirety.jpg [ 189.39 KiB | Viewed 295 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:58 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:09 pm
Posts: 34
Just terrific, Pat; very reminiscent of the under-tree display my grandfather assembled each Christmas some sixty years ago. Lots of cardboard houses, tin figures, and German penny toys, all on a bed of dyed green sawdust and circled by a band of ornate cast iron fencing. A flashback in time, for sure.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:01 pm 
Offline

Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:51 pm
Posts: 109
Paul, your description has me curious. Do you know anything about his source of inspiration?
Any chance of unearthing old photos?

Pat


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:22 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:09 pm
Posts: 34
Pat, my grandparents on my father's side were both first-gen German-Americans, i.e. their fathers were both born in Germany and emigrated to the U. S. in the 1870s. They were teenagers living in or near Alsace at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, which led to them being sent by their families to America during a pretty rough time. Many Germans entered the U. S. through Baltimore, which is where they ended up settling. Given this, the putz thing was likely inevitable :lol:

We've never been able to find any pictures of Christmas at their house from sixty years ago. I can tell you the display my grandfather assembled each year was relatively small, say a table that was roughly four-foot square, covered with green sawdust and some sort of a skirt around it. He had many painted cast figures, numerous small vehicles that were penny toys he purchased in one or two shops downtown, along with a half-dozen or so cardboard houses that he'd bought or made himself. I have vague memories of some years there was a four-foot artificial Christmas tree in the center of the whole thing. He had a small electric train set, but that was never included in his display. He had a set of cast-iron fencing that went around the table-edge that kept his grandchildren's meat-hooks out of it. The look and feel, at least from what I remember, was very similar to that which you have assembled (only yours is quite a bit bigger).

Legend has it that Baltimore is the home of the Christmas "garden", the big toy train/village displays that come out every year for the six weeks or so that follow Thanksgiving. There's still a great tradition of it here, but mostly in public spaces, not in peoples' homes anymore. I think this "garden" thing goes back to the preponderance of German culture in the city.

When my cousins cleaned out my grandparents' house a few years ago (my uncle had lived there for a few years after their passing, then it had sat vacant for a decade or so), they found my grandfather's and my uncle's trainsets, which they handed off to me. Unfortunately, they never found any of the stuff from the "garden", so I'm left with just a few vague memories.

Paul


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:00 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:46 pm
Posts: 2249
OKPat…

I always find another little vignette in your village photos I somehow missed earlier…in addition to the village, my eyes are drawn to the weathervane and wooden piece with the miniatures…and your feather tree with wooden fence…

Do you have any “secret projects” in the works…I guess we’ll have to wait a few more months to find out…

Howard…

_________________
View my Little Glitter House Photo Album
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOODm--XeeYEyxSdc4RY4DdTpQBRuRSWuipFHFP7-QWtidYW9c6Az-qbcAAQXLsBw?key=YlNqQjVkbWRLcjlSS3F6dHZQa3RhN0x5Mm9MTFd3


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 16 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  




Click to see sturdy Lionel(r) trains that are perfect for your Christmas tree.



Note: To ask a question, sign up for our "Christmas Times" newsletter, or learn how
to apply for membership to this forum, please visit our Contact page.


Note: All content on this forum is Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 by Paul D. Race
and by the posters who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content
or plans may be republished or sold, nor may any plans be used to make products to sell without prior written
permission from Paul D. Race and the individual who contributed the content or plan in question.
For permissions or for questions about this policy, please contact us using our Contact page.



Visit our affiliated sites:
- Christmas Memories and Collectibles -
Visit the FamilyChristmasOnline site. Visit Howard Lamey's glitterhouse gallery, with free project plans, graphics, and instructions. Visit Papa Ted Althof's extensive history and collection of putz houses, the largest and most complete such resource on the Internet.. Click to return to the Old Christmas Tree Lights Table of Contents Page Click to sign up for Maria Cudequest's craft and collectibles blog.
Click to visit Fred's Noel-Kat store.
- Family Activities and Crafts -
Click to see reviews of our favorite family-friendly Christmas movies. Free, Family-Friendly Christmas Stories Decorate your tree the old-fashioned way with these kid-friendly projects. Free plans and instructions for starting a hobby building vintage-style cardboard Christmas houses. Click to find free, family-friendly Christmas poems and - in some cases - their stories. Traditional Home-Made Ornaments
- Trains and Hobbies -
Visit Lionel Trains. Free building projects for your vintage railroad or Christmas village. Click to see Thomas Kinkaded-inspired Holiday Trains and Villages. Big Christmas Train Primer: Choosing and using model trains with holiday themes Building temporary and permanent railroads with big model trains Click to see HO scale trains with your favorite team's colors.
- Music -
Carols of many countries, including music, lyrics, and the story behind the songs Wax recordings from the early 1900s, mostly collected by George Nelson.  Download them all for a 'period' album.
Best-loved railroad songs and the stories behind them.
Heartland-inspired music, history, and acoustic instrument tips. Own a guitar, banjo, or mandolin?  Want to play an instrument?  Tips to save you money and time, and keep your instrument playable. Own a guitar, banjo, or mandolin?  Want to play an instrument?  Tips to save you money and time, and keep your instrument playable.



Click to trains that commemorate your team!

Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group